Disappointed, disbelief and fear filled my mind as I sat there between the shattered windshield and my steering wheel. I couldn’t stop thinking about what just happened, what did I just do, and did this really just happen to me? My lungs began to tighten up as I began to cry out of fear. Knowing that my parents were back in Arizona and I was there all alone with no family.…
I was walking home from the library and I saw suspicious looking person beside the sidewalk I was walking on. I became alert and felt ready to run out of there as fast as I could. I was under the suspicion that this man would jump up and stab me. In the end, nothing happened. All that happened was me walking past a guy who had a knife.…
My mother then seen she was pregnant and calmed down from being angry. She told the girl to go to the hospital and to rest and make sure the baby was alright. We weren’t going to call the cops or involved insurance because there was no damage to the cars. The girl and her baby’s life were more important than the car at that time so we both went on are…
Then I start the car, put gear & pressed the accelerator the car started moving. I was so excited that I was driving the car alone without any fear that it could take anybody life. I was thinking it was just a kid’s game to drive the car. I have seen my cousins who are older than me could drive the car so well.…
Five years ago, I was in a grocery store. I wanted to buy gear. I was weary on that day. When I bought my stuff, I got back to my home. Then, I went to bed so I can take some rest.…
The fundamental issue addressed is how distracted an inattentive and distracted driver is while s/he converses on a cell phone. Car crashes are common and one of the major causes of distracted driving is cell phone usage. Cell phone usage distracts the driver from the primary task of driving. Human brain capacity does not allow humans to multitask, but it is rather a seemingly simultaneous alternation between the two tasks (Strayer, Drews, & Crouch, 2006). This study highlights the impairments associated with cell phone usage while driving.…
Is there ever a time when driving and you get a text message or a notification on your phone and you have to know who it is from, or what it is for? You can look at it for what feels like a second, but in all reality it was more like a minute or two; then there is the urge to reply, so you do. By the time you look back up you've gone as far as a football field and you hardly realize it. But what you do realize is that you passed McDonalds to get those french fries; so you turn around and get your fries. Realize the on going issue here?…
Distracted driving is caused by numerous things and insurers are tired of one particular problem. Texting and driving has become one of the number one reasons for car accidents and deaths. If people keep this bad habit going, it’s not only an annoyance on the road, but it will also be a nuisance to your wallet. Car insurance rates are rising because people keep texting and driving. Like AT&T says, “Texting and driving, it can wait.”…
There are many things that drivers do that cause crashes and in some cases, death. However, the most surprising fact of crashes to me was that the most deaths in Utah were caused by speeding. I realized that speeding was dangerous but I had no idea that speeding could cause 42% of Utah highway deaths. Speeding is very dangerous and could hurt many people, including yourself. The 2nd highest amount of deaths for teenagers is also for speeding.…
"Canyon stop!", I yelled as I saw an someone stumbled and fall from opposite of the road. I'm surprised I saw, it was dark out. I don't remember getting out the car. One moment was in the passenger seat, then suddenly right by their side. It was as if I teleported.…
Negligence on the freeway can be a common thing. Commercial vehicle accidents could be the most serious and devastating of accidents and if for whatever reason the driver doesn’t pay attention for one second he could lose control and wreak havoc. Some might ask the question, What is a commercial vehicle? A commercial vehicle is an industrial vehicle that is designed to carry massive loads of a company's products and transport it to various facilities. This includes semi-trucks, delivery vehicles and vans, ambulances, fire trucks and other employee owned vehicles that are under a company’s name.…
Seatbelts Save Wearing seatbelts save over 13,000 lives a year. I realized that was true when it saved mine. I almost lost my life in a car accident and the only things I have to thank for still being here is God and my seat belt. It was Sunday morning and I was leaving the house for church.…
The apprehending of speeding on neighborhood streets are probably the most endless problem facing residents and traffic official. Although residential streets have the lowest traffic volume and suffer the fewest traffic crashes, they are the single largest consumer of a traffic engineer’s time and energy. As a resident and motorist, do you have what it takes to control and fight against motorist that speeding in our neighborhood or are you one of those speeders/neighborhood that does not even care? Drivers should be aware of speed limit in different areas/places and what consequences of crossing the constraints areas, because it puts our citizens’ fear for children, pedestrian and bicyclist safety. Here are some issues that need to look…
Today everywhere are people are talking and texting while driving. Drivers should not be allowed to use the cell phone while driving. Using a cell phone while driving can cause many problems for you and the other drivers on the road. Just by sending a quick text could end with someone being hurt. Therefore cell phone use while driving should be stopped.…
Lost and Found Have you ever lost your parents? Whenever they is war they will be a loser and a weaner. My parents were living in a small village call Bulla Hawa which is located in Somalia and they were having seven kids. I was the older kid in our family and I was ten year old at that time. After the serval war in Somali people started to group themselves in small region and have someone who can lead them but unfortunately people were having tribe problems and they starting to dived the people according to his or her tribe and if you are not a mange the tab tribes in that region they will kill you.…